Senior Member Registered: July, 2022 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 115 | Review Date: August 19, 2022 | Recommended | Price: $22.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Easy handling, great sharpness, high quality | Cons: | Not much | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: K10D & KS2
| | Very easy handling for an MF lens, high quality overall feel, very sharp - even sharp wide open, although it does get sharper stopped down one step. Very good value of a lens and one I would recommend to anyone looking for something like this.
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New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14 | Review Date: September 2, 2014 | Recommended | Price: $45.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | really very sharp standard zoom lens, stopped down at f 8 | Cons: | 35 mm few CA in the corners | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: k-x k200 sf-x k-2, mgf, mv, mz 5, Z-20 p, z.70
| | my item is quite different.
I've got still an other Osawa mark II (4-5/70-210)and was really convinced by quality. This lens is constructed especially for close ups, plants flowers, portraits. Far distant object are quite sharp;but near it seems a few sharper. I am using it regulary at 105 mm as macro lens with macro ring. A pure macro tele lens is much more expensive.
because oh its low price and no visible CA's in tele position and very high sharpness of my item 9.5 points
+++ extreme high sharpness at 105mm with f 8-11, if close ups are shooted
+++ no visible CA's in tele mode very well corrected
++ very good sharpness at 50 mm
+ good sharpness at 35 mm, corners a few weak and small CA's visible in the edges
++ excellent color rendition and
++ contrast is very fine, too
highly recommended | |
Senior Member Registered: October, 2012 Posts: 139 | Review Date: April 6, 2013 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 6 |
Pros: | Cheap | Cons: | Soft till f8, not for "quick" purposes | Sharpness: 6
Handling: 6
Value: 7
| | I did what is known as the Newspaper Test: basically paste a newspaper page to a wall, sit the camera perfectly horizontal & have the newspaper fill the frame, shoot & see sharpness at different FLs & apertures Aberrations & Bokeh:
I cannot comment as I haven't tested that
(dunno how to, really) Sharpness:
Wide-open (f3.5) it is soft over the whole frame, stopping down to f5.6 & f8 it becomes significantly sharper
My copy is softer on the left side and the bottom right corner at f5.6 & 8, but center & right is decently sharp
That is on all focal lengths
The Macro focus gives a very nice shallow DOF as well, that's one of the reasons I like that lens Handling & Ergonomics:
This lens has a slide-zoom; meaning you slide the moving part away to zoom in & vice versa
It has a long focus throw, almost half a turn from minimum focus point to infinity
The "Macro Focus" ring is between the aperture & focus rings, with a button that is facing upwards (12 o'clock) that you press in order to turn and focus closer than the 1.5 meter normal focusing (up to ~3 inches from the front element at 35mm)
as far as i can tell, this lens was designed to be held with fingers facing upwards & thumb below it not the usual grasp that is as if you're carrying the camera in your palm
I found that the easiest type of grip that allows you to focus, zoom & access macro zoom almost simultaneously It takes quite the long time for me to focus with this lens (and that with focus peaking!) so I wouldn't recommend it for situations that require speed (street candids, photojournalism...etc) Overall:
I maybe a bit biased due to my obsession with "vintage lenses" but it is what it is, an extremely cheap lens (most Osawa lenses are, actually) that is not-so-special performance wise
Haven't tested for flare but I do expect it to be very prone to flare.
Personally, the soft focus wide open & flare are elements I like to have, but as most I consider them a disadvantage in absolute terms
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